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The workshop aims at comparing different approaches to media analysis, as well as at discussing opportunities and challenges of transdisciplinary methods.

The workshop is open to scholars as well as to interested students of any disciplinary background. A registration is not required. Participants are welcome to present empirical examples and current problems from their own research activities (in this case please contact Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer or Anna Sawerthal by Monday 26th January).

Venue: Karl Jaspers Centre, Room 002 (Ground Floor).

We are very much looking forward to a fruitful exchange in an informal atmosphere.

Tonight Maria Röder-Tzellos, M.A., of the University of Mannheim will present results of her PhD thesis on the role of social media during the revolution in Egypt. The lecture will be in German, it is entitled:

Here are some impression from last week’s lecture by Prof. Andreas Hepp (Uni Bremen), who elaborated on the broad topic of Transcultural Communication. As one of the leading scholars in the field he sketched out different traditions of the concept and its current applications in empirical research.

Our next scheduled event is Prof. Udo Kuckartz’s talk on textual analysis in a digital age. As one of the founders of the data software MAXQDA, he will discuss its usage with us next week, June 12th at 4 pm (c.t.) (see also the Summer Term program for detailed information). We are looking forward to his valued input on methodological questions.

The program of the summer term 2014 focuses on reflections about methods about forms of knowledge-transfer through the media. The term “knowledge” denotes constructed realities, which are characterized by the interconnection between information and representation (subjective, institutional and social). Thus, the reflection on “hybrid, transcultural and national identities through the media” which was started during the winter term 2013/14, is continued and further developed.

While the lectures by Andeas Hepp and Udo Kuckartz focus on the theoretical and methodological enhancement of innovative research designs, the case studies presented by Salvatore di Piazza and Maria Röder-Tzellos will provide for an empirical, problem-oriented interdisciplinary exchange. In the workshop “Discourse Analysis as Transcultural Research” both aspects (the thematic and the empirical) are addressed: in an inter- and transdisciplinary dialogue, the methodological diversity of discourse analysis is discussed, but also the potentials and risks of its usage for specific transcultural processes are addressed.

The conference “Newspapers and Transculturality: New Approaches to Working with Historical Newspapers” took place last week at the KJC “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. Thanks to all the enthusiastic participants, interesting talks and discussions.